Racism,

[Ephemeral]

LOL, who counts the words and misspellings in a forum post?...I'm not siding with cig on this because I don't like either one of you but really...who does that? :down:

I 'counted' the words because Cig tried to make a point about how long my post was, I feel it was an invalid point since my post was only about 25% more words than his posts. Additionally, I really did not sit there and actually count words. I simply cut and pasted them into Word and it tells you how many words are there, took about 30 seconds.

I guess your too new to understand, but the grammar and spelling in Cig's posts have been a topic of discussion for some time in these forums. I like to mess with Cig, we have known each other for many years.

On the other hand, I don't know you nor have I ever heard of you. But, I like you because you remind me of myself when I was young and stupid.

[Rogue]

:up: you're added to the long list of newbies that don't know who i am GJ

[NaiLed]

i dont know either

[Ephemeral]

:up: you're added to the long list of newbies that don't know who i am GJ

LOL, good logic. I guess how long someone has played the game, how many hours someone has played, how many top notch squads someone has played on, are not useful metrics for determining who a newbie is....


Ok folks, new way to measure noobiness.......if you don't know who Rouge is, then you must be new. LOL

[Voth]

I don't know who Rogue is, either.

[Troll King]

So that's why they call TW a newbie zone; because noone here knows who Rogue is.

[Gemfire]

Staff, close this thread, its going from a thread discussing racism to a flame fest.

[Torn Wing]

Come sit on my rod of fire

[ogron]

its obvious, and 100% agreed on that their is no real consistancy or guidelines as to how mods deal with racist comments.

while taking action against racism is obviously a deterrent to some effect, it doesn't stop people from making racist comments on a frequent basis.

racism is often simply used as a tool to try to get someone banned because the 'victim' is angry and, while not offended by the comment, will call a mod in retort. whereas, had the 'offender' said "your mom is dead and youre an incest-spreading necrophyliac who does everyone in his family, you're a loser, and you have no friends and i hope you die in fucking hell" instead of "blow me *****" or whatnot, no mod would have been called into action.

The fact of the matter is that taking offense to such racism is silly, because rarely is racism actually an insult. calling someone a "fucking azn"; it doesn't mean anything. it's stating someone's potential race in anger. wow.

Of all the ?cheatered racism, I would bet that over 90% don't even include any real harmful racism (ie, actually knowing the person is black, and using their race to incite that they are part of a negative sterotypical attribute associated with that race), like "you're a dumb n***** who's so poor your mom has to prostitute herself to rich white people, and you smell cause youre black and you deserve to be a slave on a plantation because of youre inherently low IQ due to the breeding of big,dumb,strong n****** in the 1800's."

Rarely is racism actually of that nature in this game, and alot of warnings and bans have been unjustified and pointless, because there wasn't any real malice or hurtful things said. If someone really is offended by the simple use of a word like 'N*****', its probably because they've succumb to real racism in life and it reminds them of those horrible incidents, just like people with big ears would take special offense to being called 'dumbo' on the internet if they've been called that during their childhood.

That doesn't mean using the word automatically makes you a racist, and bans and warnings should be contextual, rather than ignorantly persecuting users of such language, especially since it is ingrained in several cultures and often used as a positive pronoun.

The system is totally inconsistant, and mods should not concentrate on typically considered 'racist' words, but on hurtful and uncalled for verbal attacks of any nature, whether it be racial, social, whatever.

Ignorance breeds ignorance, and I think that the way racism has been handled in SS up to now is reflective of that. Let's stop the bleeding and start handling hurtful comments properly.

[Gemfire]

Im not saying there isnt any valid points in here, im just saying close it, or be prepared to move it to trash talk, cause i see that coming up around the bend >.>

[Pakastin]

im from pakastin, call me paka, i will be insulted!








by your lack of knowledge!

[LaG KiLLeR]

On the other hand, I don't know you nor have I ever heard of you. But, I like you because you remind me of myself when I was young and stupid.

(THIS QUOTE WAS REGARDED TOWARDS ROGUE)

Well, I can tell you this, he's your father.

[Xog]

i think eph's post should be considered for the Newbies.txt help file o.O.. and given to each person who disobeys the rules! yea $ teach em a lesson.
edit: 1st post

[StackOverflow]

Why can't we just stop all of this racism and go back to calling each other fags like we did in junior high?




Fags.

[Fit of Rage]

Pakastin is Finnish and it means freezer.

I learned something today!